Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn

Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn at Beef And Boards Dinner Theatre

The choice at the heart of Holiday Inn is anything but simple: the life you've built or the stage you left behind. Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn invites you to spend the whole year inside a story, and it starts at Beef And Boards Dinner Theatre in Indianapolis on December 5, 2026, at 7:30 PM. It's live storytelling built around songs you may already know by heart, including "Blue Skies," "Easter Parade," "Cheek to Cheek" and "White Christmas."

The story gives those songs somewhere to go. Entertainer Jim walks away from show business for a Connecticut farmhouse. Then he meets schoolteacher Linda, and together they turn the place into an inn that stages performances for different holidays. It's a story about starting over, about the pull between quiet country life and the bright lights of Hollywood, and about the people who make a stage feel like home. That is the hook. It's more than a Christmas card with a tune attached.

Then comes the complication. Jim's friend Ted wants Linda as his Hollywood dance partner, and the romance gets tangled right where ambition meets affection. Because the musical moves through holidays across the calendar, the evening has more variety than a single-season show. It's familiar and fresh at once, based on the classic film and carried by Berlin's songbook. If you want a December night out that offers melody, heart and a love story worth following, claim your seat for Holiday Inn in Indianapolis and make your plans here.